Supreme Court of India

Amrutlal Liladharbhai Kotak & Ors. v. State of Gujarat

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Reported as [2015] 2 S.C.R. 871
Bench M.Y. Eqbal and Pinaki Chandra Ghose JJ.
Decided 26 February 2015

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Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 498- , 304- and s.306 rlw s.114-8 - Dowry death - Conviction by courts below relying on evidence of friends and relatives of the deceased as regards mental torture and harassment of the deceased by the accused, for bringing insufficient dowry - On appeal, 0 held: As the deceased died by committing suicide within seven years of her marriage and four witnesses have further proved that cruelty was meted out to the deceased immediately before her death, courts below rightly presumed that the suicide was abetted by the accused persons (husband and relatives of the husband) -

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